SharePoint Sideshow

The SharePoint Sideshow is about all things around SharePoint and Office development. Here, those just starting with this development platform and seasoned veterans alike will find discussions about developer tools and resources, tips and tricks and technical interviews with product group members that can take you deep into these technologies. So stay tuned to the SharePoint Sideshow, provide feedback and we’ll seek to bring you the best about SharePoint and Office development.

Take your SharePoint business applications on the go with Windows Phone. Windows Phone has great integration with SharePoint via the Microsoft Office hub. While the Office hub is interesting and has a lot of capabilities out of the box, as a developer I want to create my own applications that can…

In this episode, learn about the new SharePoint and Azure Development Kit. The SharePoint and Azure Development Kit is a training course to help you learn different ways to integrate SharePoint and Windows Azure. SharePoint 2010 provides many ways to integrate with Windows Azure, from simple SQL…

Learn real world tips for configuring SharePoint claims based security from Altaf Gilani and Mark Massad. In this episode, we discuss how to implement claims based security in SharePoint, including lessons learned and general guidance. Altaf and Mark also give some valuable instrumentation and…

In part two of this two-part series, Larry Waldman, Excel Program Manager, talks in detail about how to execute the migration of Excel client solutions to web-based Excel Services solutions. Larry walks through the migration of a sample Excel client application to its new incarnation as a Web-based…

In part one of this two-part series, Larry Waldman, Excel Program Manager, discusses how to think about designing Excel solutions for the Web. As the Program Manager for Excel Services extensibility, Larry talks through the power of solutions built on Excel Services and what's now available in…

In this SharePoint Sideshow episode, Chris Mayo, Office 365 Technical Evangelist, talks with Donovan about the recent Office 365 Beta release and how to get started developing against SharePoint Online. Chris describes the services offered by Office 365, including Exchange Online, Lync Online,…

In this episode, Donovan talks with John Corley, CTO of Spanish Point Technologies. Spanish Point is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner independent software vendor (ISV) and builds their products on SharePoint, Office, and other Microsoft technologies. In this interview, John discusses their…

In this episode of the SharePoint Sideshow, Donovan has a conversation with Girish Raja, Technical Evangelist, about Dynamics CRM. You might ask, How does Dynamics CRM have any relationship with SharePoint and Office? That’s where the power of the Dynamics CRM story comes in. Built with deep…

SharePoint Easy Setup Script is a new tool released by Chris Johnson and Paul Stubbs to help you set up a SharePoint 2010 developer machine without requiring Hyper-V. The Easy Setup script will set up the machine, either as a native install or on a bootable VHD file. In order to make this process…